​​The Buford Highway International Half-Marathon

We are sad to announce that this event has been canceled. Thank you for your interest and support over the past 2 years.

It comes with great sadness that we are announcing the cancellation of the Buford Highway Half Marathon, 10k, 5k, 2-mile Stroll and Bike Ride that was scheduled for November 11, 2018.

All participants will receive a full refund in the next 10 days.

As a runner myself, I understand that the event is more than a registration fee and we’re truly sorry for hindering your racing season and plans for our event! We, the IWeLife event team, cannot express this enough, we’re sorry.

When we created the event, as a way to showcase the wonders of BuHi by combining a fitness activity and raising money for local charities we had a considerable partnership with Discover Dekalb (convention and visitor bureau of Dekalb County). That partnership allowed for us to advertise the event and not lose too much money for the inaugural year. However the sponsorship ended completely this year yet we attempted to partner with the cities that also benefit directly from the event; Brookhaven, Chamblee and Doraville. They too declined interest in supporting the event.

We wanted to share our reasons for the cancellation and basically we failed in finding a significant sponsor and with the cost to secure the roads on and around Buford Hwy are the most expensive we’ve ever encountered (we’ve paid over $13,000 directly to off duty officers in 2 years). We have no qualms paying for the wonderful safety we’ve received for this event, we were just hoping for a model where everyone who benefits also helps with the costs. As a side note the NYC Marathon didn’t pay for police support of the 5 borrows until fairly recently and they were able to use that savings and reinvest in the event, which is now the worlds largest marathon (in terms of signed up participants)